The following reorganization was very smooth. The soldiers were quite cooperative. Not long after, the results of the statistics were out.
Zhou Weiguo looked at the tabulated form and smiled happily. How could he not smile? After spending so much effort, including the follow-up, a total of more than 20,000 soldiers stayed.
A small portion of them were elite German Machinists, some were from the Sichuan Army, some were from the Guangdong Army, and some were even from the Northeast Army.
However, they all had one characteristic. They had all been baptized by the flames of war and would definitely not be afraid on the battlefield.
As long as the war was over, they would definitely be elites after some systematic training. These were all precious talents.
"Aren't there any high-ranking officers inside?”Zhou Weiguo asked Fang Shengli.
"There's only one lieutenant colonel and quite a few deputy regiment commanders. There are also some staff officers, division commanders, and brigade commanders. Basically, they all fled with their trusted subordinates. There were also those who died in battle.”Fang Shengli explained.
"Not even a major general?”Zhou Weiguo asked in disbelief.
"No, not a single one. Basically, they all ran away. Those who couldn't escape were sacrificed.”Fang Shengli shook his head and said.
"This bunch of bastards, they promised to live and die with Nanjing City, but now, all of them are running away faster than rabbits.”Zhou Weiguo cursed angrily.
"Master, we shouldn't be concerned about the generals now. There are so many people, what should we do without weapons and ammunition? Many of them are wearing autumn clothes and don't have cotton clothes at all.”Fang Shengli said with a bit of a headache.
Although they had recruited more than 20,000 people and the number of troops continued to increase, they did not have weapons and ammunition. They could not let them fight the Japanese barehanded.
Zhou Weiguo smiled and said,""Don't worry, the weapons, ammunition, and military uniforms are already prepared. You don't have to worry, I'll send them over in a while.”
"There are more than 20,000 people here. How can you get so many weapons?”Fang Shengli asked in confusion.
"Don't worry, since I've said so, how can I not handle it? 20,000 Garland semi-automatic rifles, 5 million rounds of ammunition, 200 Browning light and heavy machine guns each, 1 million rounds of ammunition, 200 70mm mortars, 10 units of ammunition, 10 units of ammunition for 100 75mm howitzers, 10 units of ammunition for 50 105mm howitzers, 1,000 Thomas submachine guns, and 1,000 units of ammunition.”Zhou Weiguo laughed secretly.
"Weiguo, you're amazing. Not only can you gather 20,000 people, but you can even gather 30,000 people without a problem. But where did you get these weapons?”Fang Shengli asked in confusion.
"Have you forgotten what my father does? He was a gentleman from Suzhou. It was normal for him to know some foreigners. These were all bought by the arms dealers in America. The silver coins raised some time ago were used to pay for them.”Zhou Weiguo made up a random reason.
He couldn't tell Fang Shengli that these were built by the Red Alert Base. He would probably think he was crazy.
"No wonder. I thought you were going to plunder money and run away. So you're here to buy arms.”Fang Shengli said with a sudden realization.
He looked around and saw that Xu Hu was the only one beside him. He felt relieved and said in a low voice,"When we were recruiting those people, someone let it slip that the National Bank has a huge sum of money in Nanjing. If the money for the arms is not enough, you know.”
Zhou Weiguo's eyes lit up. To be honest, the gold and silver jewelry collected from the ghost was worth more than 100,000 silver dollars.
This batch of weapons was also dependent on these gold and silver accessories. Otherwise, he really wouldn't have been able to gather the weapons and equipment for these 20,000 people.
Now that he heard about the windfall, Zhou Weiguo's eyes naturally lit up. As long as he had enough silver dollars, coupled with the fact that there were scattered soldiers everywhere in Nanjing, he could use the base to organize an elite force. It might not be impossible to defend Nanjing and fight the devils head-on.
"Really?" Zhou Weiguo hurriedly asked.
"Of course, why would I lie to you? I think we should let Hu Zi bring some trustworthy people to get this. Otherwise, there will be too many people.”Fang Shengli said.
"Alright, Xu Hu, bring some people and get me this batch of silver. Whether or not we can defend Nanjing depends on it. I will let my father continue to contact the foreign devils and ask them to continue sending arms.”Zhou Weiguo nodded.
On the other side, after Nanjing City was breached and after a short rest, the Japanese began to attack the city.
However, every step they took was like walking on thin ice. They had to pay a painful price for every street they occupied. It wasn't that the Japanese weren't fierce enough, but that the independent division's soldiers were like monkeys, running around everywhere. They shot here and there. It was really hard to predict.
A Japanese squadron was conducting an inspection on an unoccupied street. The street was about 300 meters long, and there were green brick houses on both sides. There were high vantage points everywhere. When they saw the terrain, they were terrified.
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